Role Play and Role-Playing Games: Education though role-play : en
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and Role-Playing Games: Education through role-play
The various resources listed in this section discuss the power of
role-play to teach, train or heal children and adults - even when no
other method would work (in case of behavioral
disabilities). Role-playing is actually so powerful that it can also
transform about anyone into a monster, as famously demonstrated in the last part of this
section.
Pedagogy based on the belief that learning is most efficient and effective when it is situated in realistic settings where learners are clear about, not only the reasons for learning but the context or the ecology of their learning environment.
Role-playing is simultaneously interesting and useful to students
because it emphasizes the "real-world" side of science and challenges them to deal with complex problems with no single "right" answer.
This article from Early Childhood Research & Practice (ECRP) by Doris Bergen defines the cluster of concepts related to pretend play and cognition and summarizes the latest research on the role of such play in children's cognitive, social, and academic development.
An interdisciplinary journal of theory, practice and research,
dedicated to the exploration and development of simulation/gaming
methodologies used in education, training and consultation.
This paper focuses on the use of Role Playing Games (RPGs) and simulations in teaching international relations, foreign policy, and comparative government, developing nations or other related courses.
"A simulation designed for collaborative learning in context will not only motivate and encourage students to learn, but as a result, will also be a more effective tool in teaching and learning than traditional means used in the discipline."
A warm-up exercise for developing role-playing skills:
participants take turns interviewing one another with one of the
pair assuming an imagined role.
Focused on uses for games in exploring management and leadership challenges facing the public sector. Not updated since october 2008, the challenges facing the public sector proved overwhelming?
U.S. Deputy Chief Technology Officer Beth Noveck says on video that the Obama administration sees "serious" games as an important, largely untapped way to enable innovation in government and civic engagement.
Pdf (1Mb) about the forces that are driving the adoption of game technologies within
established industries, by R. Smith, Chief Technology Officer,
U.S. Army Simulation, Training, and Instrumentation.
The "meta-role" modulates which roles are played when and how by
the mind. Education or therapy may involve the meta-role by making this role and its function explicitly conscious.
This psychiatrist was a pioneer of one of the main theoretical foundations of modern social psychology and sociology, “role theory.”
Therapy is Fantasy: Roleplaying, Healing and the Construction of Symbolic Order
A complete overview describing many aspects of the roleplay,
its history, its rules, the core place of fantasy and
characterization in Rpg, the impact roleplay can have on everyday
life (as a factor of change), the role of the gamemaster, and a powerful case study : how exploration of gender role through rpg helped a young depressed woman to heal.
In 1967 World History teacher Ron Jones decided to have a two week experiment in dictatorship. His idea was to explain fascism to his class through a game, nothing more. He never intended what resulted, where his class would be turned into a Fascist environment. See also his own writing about it.
The Milgram experiment may be the most famous experiment in psychology to date. Take the average American of 1963, put him in the right environment, and he will transform into a torturer.
